Moment in Time Revisited

In 1942 funding was obtained to buy uniforms for the Grandview Heights High School band and the marching band was organized, with Mr. Paul Holcomb as director. The inset photo shows the concert band posing with Mr. Holcomb in their new uniforms that year. Two years later, the larger photograph shows the Grandview Heights Marching Band on the front lawn of the High School. The 13-member 1944 band grew to a group that involved nearly 1/3 of the entire high school student body, with 130 members in 2004, with Kie Watkins as director. Notice the gate to the football field in the background, which was torn down in the late 1990s with the addition of the current parking lot and reconstructed as a monument after lobbying by the community and alumni groups.

NOTE: Originally submitted to ThisWeek News for publication February 2, 2005.